PROVIDENCE — Rookie Cory Kane scored at 6:31 of overtime to lift the Providence Bruins to a 3-2 victory over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins on Friday night at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.

PROVIDENCE — Cory Kane couldn’t have picked a better time to score his first goal as a pro.

The rookie from Ferris State jammed the puck into the net at 6:31 of overtime to lift the Providence Bruins to a 3-2 victory over the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in Game Four of their Calder Cup series on Friday night at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.

With the win, Providence knotted the series at two games each. Game Five is Saturday night at The Dunk.

Kane nudged the puck under the pads of Pens’ goalie Peter Mannino in the crease. Craig Cunningham and Ryan Spooner were credited with assists.

“It was kind of laying there on the ice next to his pad. I just hacked at it and it was in the net,” said Kane, a free agent who signed with Providence after his college season ended in March.

Mannino argued to no avail that he had the puck tied up, but referees Graham Skilliter and Tom Chmielewski didn’t blow the whistle.

“He had like three whacks at it and kind of pushed me into the net and the puck went with it. Hard play by them. The refs gave them the goal and the rest is history,” said Mannino, who made 28 saves.

Malcolm Subban stopped 28 shots for Providence, and held his team in the game in the second period when he faced 18 shots.

The P-Bruins were within a whisker of falling behind by three games to one in the series. But Spooner sent the game to OT with a dramatic goal with just 0.6 seconds left on the clock.

He blasted a one-timer past Mannino after taking a pass from Seth Griffith, tying the score at two. Joe Morrow also was credited with an assist.

At first it appeared that time had run out before the puck went in the net, but referee Chmielewski reviewed the video and ruled that the goal counted.

With Subban on the bench for an extra attacker, Morrow and Griffith had passed the puck back and forth at the points looking for an opening. Finally, Griffith fed Spooner, who unloaded from the faceoff circle to Mannino’s left.

Said Providence coach Bruce Cassidy: “I’m not going to lie. When Morrow and Griffith were passing the puck there up top, I’m thinking, ‘These young guys are going to drive me crazy. Don’t they know the clock’s going to run out?’ I guess they knew what they were doing.”

The win was a massive lift for the P-Bruins after blowing a 4-1 lead in Game Four and losing in double overtime.

“It’s huge. We were able to steal one. They did that to us the other night, so it was a little payback,” said Kane.

Before Spooner’s goal, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton had grabbed a 2-1 lead on a goal by Conor Sheary at 4:01 of the third period. Sheary’s goal came just 66 seconds after Providence’s Nick Johnson was denied on a penalty shot, which was called after Penguins defender Simon Despres covered the puck in the crease at 2:45.

Johnson skated in on Mannino and fired a wrist shot, but the Pens’ goalie kicked it out with his pad.

Providence opened the scoring on Griffith’s fourth playoff goal at 3:11 of the first period. He whipped a long wrist shot past a screened Mannino after taking a pass from Alex Khokhlachev. Blake Parlett was credited with the second assist.

But the Penguins turned the tide in a big way in the second period, outshooting the P-Bruins, 18-4. Defenseman Reid McNeill knotted the game at one when he fired a long slap shot past Subban, who was screened by two of his own players, at 13:16.